A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

New research reveals that high-energy radiation from active galactic nuclei could foster life on distant planets by ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago.

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...